Official data for crime specifically against students is not available, so we have taken professional advice on the crimes most relevant to students and have looked at – burglary, robbery and violent crime.

Click on the institution name to see a map illustrating crime hot spots.

These statistics are not specific to students but relate to the whole population of the defined area.

We list the annual reported incidents per thousand residents for the period May 2013–April 2014, within wards or electoral divisions of which parts are within 3 miles of the main university or college campus, normalised for population density.

Comparable data for Scotland and Northern Ireland are not available. Rankings for cities and towns in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales with two or more universities are available – see How Safe is Your City?

The police.uk definitions of the three selected crimes are:

burglary includes offences where a person enters a house or other building with the intention of stealing;

robbery includes offences where a person uses force or threat of force to steal;

violent crime includes offences against the person such as common assaults, grievous bodily harm and sexual offences.